The Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plan to demonstrate whether teams of manned and unmanned aircraft can work together in an air-to-ground combat mission, following a series of flight tests last fall. AFRL spokesman Bryan Ripple told Inside the Air Force this week DARPA's Distributed Battle Management program will grow the types of aircraft, weapons and sensors that the software can understand, plan for and control. "The technology being developed for the DBM program can...
